After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival and touring other prestigious autumn festivals like Toronto, San Sebastian, London BFI, and NYFF, it...
A Vindicated Woman: Kulumbegashvili Constructs Potent, Profound Study in Body Horror
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves,”...
Perhaps the landmark sophomore feature of 2024, Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili has found a safe space in the U.S. via newish distributor Metrograph Pictures...
Pedro Paramo
Dir. Rodrigo Prieto
Prod: Rafael Ley, Stacy Perskie, Francisco Ramos
A Netflix backed project that went into production in March of last year, Mexican cinematographer...
Perhaps the last tidbit of foreign production support type news for '22, we have some excellent news with regards to Dea Kulumbegashvili's sophomore project...
One of the brighter notes in world cinema circa year one of the pandemic, Dea Kulumbegashvili's directorial debut (an official entry for Georgia for...
Carpet Burn: Kulumbegashvili Unnerves with Exacting Debut of Violence and Veneration
For decades, the international presence of Georgian cinema was thanks (mostly) to the output...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.